River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1887-06-16
WISCONSIN NEWS.
Fond du Lac now has fifty saloons.

Appleton has street cars run by
electricity.
The mayor Of Oshkosh will not per-
nit Sunday ball-playing.
For the first time in her history Mn-
waukee has 1000 saloons.
The state funniest will be held this
year at Wausau, from Aug. / to Il.
Nearly $4,000 per month Is the pay
roll of j. l. Cases works at Racine
The Sd regiment, Wisconsin national
guard, viii camp at Portage. June 20
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| The capacity of the Menasha chair
factory Is 100000 finished chairs per
annum.
1t requires the strength of two men
to wind the tower clock at the ST. Paul
depot in Milwaukee
The City of Barron has resolved to
spend 500 to advertise the advantage
of the place and its vicinity.
The wife of DR.. Smith. Of Kendall.
killed a house-adder. which She found
cOiled up in her sitting room.
Explorations for natural gas have
been resumed near Appleton Several
shallow wells are to be sunk.
The thirty-fifth annual session of the
! Wisconsin Teachers association will be
held in Milwaukee July 6 and Z
Ex-State Treasurer McFetridge and
party, of Beaver Dam. caught $50 bass
on the Big lake, one day last week.
4 soldiers reunion will be held at
WonewOc, June -, y and p, by the
Baraboo Valley Veterans association
The viii of Charles Tillepaugh.
murdered in Ozaukee county. Is contest
ed by an older brother of the deceased
The Homeopathic Medical society OF
Wisconsin win hold lis thirty-third an
nual session 1T Waukcsha. june . and
u.
At Lincoln. Polk county. bears are
81 bold that they tear screens from the
pantry windows and help themselves 10
tie good things.
Charles Oshlke, employed in a brick
yard at Appleton, was killed by the
caying in of an embankment under
which be was digging.
School district clerks, in taking the
census of school children this wear.
must take the names of the children as
well as the age and sex.
Two Racine bicyclists crossed the
Northwestern railway bridge al that
city ON their wheels Saturday. The
bridge is half mile long and sixty feet
high.
A Brandon man has taken the con-
tract to pasture "a nejgnhor's cus,. and
he does it by having his children
watch the COW while She hrowses on
The street.
The membership OF the Knights Of
Labor in Wisconsin is officially re-
ported as 21,000. OF the total number
5000 have their membership in Mil
waukee.
An insane man escaped from the
officers at FOn du Lac. boarded NOV
ing train and drove the engineer and
fireman out of the cab. He was cap
tured after hard struggle.
The youngest teacher in Wisconsin. IS
Miss Barbara Hames. of Frudonia. who
has passed an examination for third
grade certificate in both Ozaubeo and
Sheboygan counties, At the age of only
Is years.
Mrs. jules c. Churchill. formerly a
leading lady in society circles in Eau
Claire, has been adjudged insane and
has been removed 10 the insane hospital
at Oshkosh. Her husband is lying at
the point of death.
The result OF the ease of John Arpin
against the Chicago. Milwaukee q ST
Paul railroad, on trial at Centralia, for
burning up the plaintiffs cranberry
marsh was a verdict in favor II plaintiff
for 81 $50 damages.
$. +. OrviS, an old resident of Wan
kesha, died at his home in that village
on the 2lth ult, aged % years. He
was a member OF the 9Th Wisconsin
regiment. Co. T. and lost an arm i'm tue
battle of the Wilderness.
The commencement hooors are an
nOunced at Lawrence university The
first goes TO &. l.. Barnes. Manitowoc:
second. +. b. Sleeves. Ives Grove, Ra-
cine county; third. to both Miss Eloise
Thompson and Mr.. ID. 4. Drew, APP
pleton.
A Milwaukee young man, finding
that his girl wanted 10 marry another
fellow, succeeded in borrowing of her
5000. to hold in trust, until the erratic
maid should find out if she could live
happily with the new man. Tie gave
his note for the 5000.
4 commercial travelling man by the
name of George Dicl,ie. ,cho resides at
Chippewa Falls. in attempting TO jump
from moving train at Spooner. We'd
nesday, fell under the cars. One Of his
arms was cut of. and he received Sc
we're injuries besides.
Mrs. Patrick McGee, of the town Of
Marshall. Richland county, was found
one morning with her head and part Of
her body in a swill barrel She was
still alive. but only lived an hour after
being removed. II Is thought she was.
suffering from delrium.
It is now reported that DR. Charles
Bruil, who died recently in the Iowa
county jail, while under arrest for the
murder of his wife. is one Charles
Fridely. formerly a citizen Of Arkansas.
| who also lived in southern Illinois.
where he served a term in the peniten-
tiary.